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Hunting for Jan Dych’s grave
Looking for Rebecca’s great-great-great grandfather, Jan Dych‘s grave at the Sweetest Heart of Mary Cemetery in the summer of 2010 was an amazing adventure! Cousin Jann provided assistance not only in finding the grave and several cemeteries, but was a joy to meet. The caretaker of the cemetery, sexton Duane Anders, was incredibly generous with his…
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Lasecki Land!
As I was researching Wagrowiec in Wielpolska, the area north of Poznan where the Laseckis (Dychs, Rozmarynowskas, Nowaks are from, I stumbled upon the absolutely gorgeous video from the folk group, Zgagafari which captures the essence so well. I love the music, though I have no idea what the song is about….do you? Hope you…
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Lasecki Land, day two
The second day we headed straight to the Pila ( north of Grylewo) civil archives.We lunched at a beautiful resort on Lake Chodzieskie, then visited Czsezewo (the main Lasecki town), and returned to Grylewo before heading back to the hotel. Please check out the map on Lasecki Land, day one if you are wondering exactly where we were. And if…
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Lasecki Land, day one
With the help of our wild, fearless driver and founder of the Poznan Project, Lukasz (pronounce that Wu kash), Rebecca, and I were able to track down and visit the relevant villages of the ancestors of Walter Lasecki (pronounce Wah set ski) during three days in June 2012. I wrote a small piece describing a…
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Polish surnames
The Poles add endings sort of at will to last names….so the root of the name is LASEK….but at some point the peasants wanted to sound more noble, so they added the “ski” like the rich folks, making it now Lasecki. Another ending is indicated with Josephine Garbaczyk’s name spelled as Garbacz on her wedding…
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Wojciech Dych and Francisca Nowak
Wojiech, whose name is synomous with Adelbert, and would be called George in America, was born 20 March, 1802 in Rybowo village in Grylewo Parish to Antony Dich and Anna Torpoteslisch (sp). The record is a bit hard to read, but you get the gyst. Looks like he was baptised the next day with the…
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The short life of Catharina BISCUP DYCH
Catharina BISCUP DYCH ~ GreatGreat Grandmother Catharina was born 10 April 1846 in Łęgowo, Wagrowiec, area of then, West Prussia to Szymon Biscup and Zophia Zamorska. We don’t know much about her early life, but we know that she married Jan Dych from a neighboring village of Danaborz, abt. 1867 when she was abt. 21. She and Jan…
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Michalina Dych Lasecki
MICHALINA (DYCH) LASECKI Michalina was the 54 girl born in the village of Danaborz in Grylewo parish, in Wielpolska, Poland, or PRUSSIA as it was then under German jurisdiction. She came into this world on 17 Oct 1872 at noon. Her parents were Jan Dych, a farmer and Catherine Biscup. Her godparents were Joseph Slabosiewski and Francisca…
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Descendents of Andrej Lasecki & Franciska Rozmarynowska
Descendants of Andrej Lasecki & Francis Rozmarynowska Andrej Lasecki b.abt.1821, probably in Cseszewo to my 3rd Great-Grandparents, Martin Lasecki and Franciska Szymanska (sp uncertain). His parents married 1817 in Legowo, making Andrej one of their eldest. He was a day-laborer or a servant at various times. I surmise that since he moved so often, he owned…